People Are Using the Hashtag #IAmAPreexistingCondition to Denounce the GOP Health Plan

On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted 217-213 to approve the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican-sponsored health care bill seen by the party as a way to replace Obamacare.

Thanks to its MacArthur-Meadows Amendment, the bill would pave the way for insurance companies to discriminate against people with "pre-existing health conditions," something the Affordable Care Act doesn't currently allow. Many of these conditions largely impact women: For example, if the AHCA were passed, insurers could potentially deny a woman coverage if she had gotten a C-section, had been treated for postpartum depression, or had gotten care for the effects of sexual assault or domestic violence. Other "conditions" insurers could use to deny people coverage (or make it prohibitively expensive) include include pregnancy and "menstrual irregularities."

Soon after the bill passed the House, people began using the hashtag #IAmAPreexistingCondition to show their outrage and to share how their health statuses could make them vulnerable if the AHCA were made law.